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Monday, November 14, 2016

Moving {November House Update} + Giveaway

We're moving! I'm excited to finally share that we're building a new house!

We love our current location and we knew our townhouse was only going to be home for a few years once Derek moved here from NJ, while we got married and started our lives, etc. We've eyed a new neighborhood that's going up under a mile down the road and back in August we knew the time was right to make it official, pick our lot and start the process! We're thrilled to be staying so close, we've already made some friends in the neighborhood and some of our closest friends are building right across the street from us so it'll be the perfect place to settle.

We broke ground right at the start of November, our lumber should be in to start building next week and construction should be finished in May!

I'll be posting monthly updates of the process - mainly to document for myself. We made things official back in August, in October we made our first two visits to the design center (having our final two this month) and in November we broke ground. We make weekly visits out to the construction site (luckily it's so close!) and love seeing each step - now that things are moving along, it finally feels real. We're so excited!

Our lot visit after we'd just broken ground. Stella is already warming up to her new home and runs around the lot frequently on our visits.

The design center has been a mix of fun/overwhelming/stressful/exciting - we had a preview when we went through the process for our townhouse but many more decisions to be made this time! We're going back on Friday for another appointment.

And last for today - back on that hot summer day when we made things official...

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In other exciting news, I'm happy to share a fun giveaway with you all. For the next week, I am teaming up with Annie from Home of Malone's and 16 other fab bloggers to give away a $300 Amazon gift card to celebrate Annie's blogiversary! It’s the perfect opportunity to get yourself {or someone else} a wonderful gift for the holidays! The more ways you enter, the better your chances are! The giveaway ends on Friday, November 18th, at midnight. Good luck and be sure to check out all of these fab blogs!

27 comments:

Congratulations on the move!! I'm glad you're going to do building updates because those are always so fun to read! Have you sold your current home yet or are you waiting until you move into your new one? We've talked about when we sell our home and it may be in a few years. We just have to find land first to build a new house on!Sarah at MeetTheShaneyfelts

Congratulations on building your new home! That's so exciting! I cannot wait to see how the process goes for y'all. How awesome is it that you're getting to build a new house that's not too far down the road from where you are now? I'd be popping by every day to check out the progress :) Happy Monday!

CONGRATS! So exciting, I can't wait to see the progress coming along! We built our home too, and couldn't be happier as we felt new construction was definitely the way to go plus you get to pick out everything. How awesome that you've already met some of your neighbors, which is my favorite thing about a new neighborhood. Everyone is new and comes together as a community. Some of our best friends live 2 doors down, and having them so close is priceless. Cheers to a fabulous week gurlie <3Green Fashionista

Congrats!! How exciting! We were set out to build our new home and then found a model home in the same neighborhood that had pretty much everything we would want so that's our new home now but I'm sure it going to be fun picking out everything to your own style ;-)